Word: pervertedly
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...with embryo fascists and with profiteers, feel that bold strategy is called for if out country is to survive and our attempts at meaningful democracy to continue. We will not abandon our rightful share in the leadership of a vital program to those martinets and those businessmen who would pervert it into a prelude to fascism or to unnecessary war. We know what they want of preparedness--but we also know what we want. We want to present a picture of strength to the world such as will discourage our being antagonized or being asked to concede more than...
...Having looked for but failed to discover a refrigerated slaughter chamber where the Butcher might have worked, he made friends with a circle of human scum in which two of the identified victims had moved: Mrs. Florence Polillo (No. 4), a prostitute, and Edward W. Andrassy (No. 2), a pervert. From their friends Pat Lyons learned that one Frank Dolezal knew them both, that he was with the Polillo woman the night police believed she was killed. Frank Dolezal drank a good deal, was fond of knives. Block-jawed, muscular, he used to be a butcher, now laid bricks...
...achieve a proportional effect on a five-for-one basis, U. S. arms appropriations would have to be $14,740,000,000 a year. If this discourages businessmen about the prospect of armament, it may also encourage them by the assurance that U. S. National Defense expenditures will not pervert the U. S. to a totalitarian, guns-instead-of-butter economy...
...duty is to save unless in saving we pervert. When all the world can see what sensible legislators in such a contingency would wish that we should do, we are not to close our eyes as judges to what we must perceive as men. This need is all the greater in fields where the Law is in a state of transition and readjustment...
Margo Dowling, on the other side of the fence, starts as a child actress, survives a nearly disastrous marriage to a Cuban pervert to become successively show girl, mistress, Hollywood extra and at last a queen of the screen...